Discounts on public services for senior citizens who can afford to pay more are bad for us, says a new report that, politics being what it is, will go nowhere.
It's a particular problem for city governments and it's going to get worse.

Few things enrage the critics of the government of Stephen Harper more than its supposed tendency to make policy in the teeth of contrary evidence provided by experts. Not only is this treated as shameful in itself, but the sin is apparently compounded by the idea that the government might ignore “evidence” in order to cater to its “base.”

The mother of a 14-year-old boy with autism says she's angry at the police and feeling betrayed by the Ottawa Catholic School Board after her son was charged with assault following an incident involving his former principal and vice-principal.

Father Joe LeClair may always be known as the priest who stole, gambled and went to jail. Gossip and Google spread their own gospel.
So, given the news reported in Thursday's Citizen, is it a good thing

Ontario is getting its own Kevin Page, a public official whose job is to call the provincial government out when it uses fishy budget numbers and jukes stats to make its finances look better than they really are.